Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-24-2009

Keywords

Active-duty military service, Cohabitation, Marriage, Union transitions

Abstract

A small but growing body of research has begun to identify the consequences of military service during the all-voluntary era. In this article, we examine the relationship between military service and the likelihood that cohabiting unions will be converted into marriages. Our paper extends previous research by making a distinction between the effects of active-duty verses reserve-duty service on the transition to marriage using data from the 1979-2004 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Our findings indicate that there is a positive relationship between active-duty service and cohabitors transitioning to marriage.

Publication Title

Demographic Research

Volume

20

Issue

10

First Page

195

Last Page

208

Required Publisher's Statement

Demographic Research is published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 2.0 Germany

DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.10

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Soldiers--United States; Unmarried couples--United States; Domestic relations--United States

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Labor Market Experience (U.S.)

Geographic Coverage

United States

Genre/Form

articles

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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